Month: January 2023

An abandoned silver mine in Laajasalo, Helsinki, Finland, August 28, 2018 (Photo by Timo Newton-Syms) Creative Commons license via Flickr. By Sunny Lewis BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 2, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – The European Union is already one of the world’s major consumers of minerals and metallic raw materials, and demand is expected to grow quickly. The EU wants to mine those minerals and raw mat...[Read More]

Abdul Baqi, 67, and his family are among those Afghans already displaced by drought. Photo by Enayatullah Azad courtesy Norwegian Refugee Council) Posted for media use KABUL, Afghanistan, June 13, 2021 (Maximpact.com News) – “The sky has stopped raining on us, the earth has stopped growing grass for us, and eventually the government has also stopped helping us,” said Abdul Baqi, 67, who was displa...[Read More]

Members of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), a social-democratic, Irish nationalist political party in Northern Ireland, stage a rally to support Syrian refugees in Belfast. September 7, 2015. (Photo by SDLP) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis BELFAST, Northern Ireland, September 5, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – A teenage refugee who fled war-ravaged Syria for a new life in Belfast has...[Read More]

Maximpact Blog was created to highlight and discuss the various sector of focus areas covered within Maximpact Ecosystem. Maximpact Ecosystem was designed as platform to bring together Social Entrepreneurs, Intrapreneurs, Non Profits, Intermediaries, Funders, Government bodies and Multilateral Institutions within impact and sustainability. The Maximpact Blog is an integral part of this community, ...[Read More]

MAXIMPACT BLOG March 17, 2017 Maximpact.com What makes a project successful? Project success isn’t just about completing it on time and on budget. A project can only be successful if all of its objectives are fully met and if the project succeeds in creating positive long term change in targeted settings.    The accomplishment of every single stage is important to project’s success, but it is in t...[Read More]

By Maximpact Whether you are a seed, start-up, growing, established or mature company – at one point of another – you need to raise capital. In days past, this usually meant going to the bank to apply for a loan or perhaps sharing your ideas with your rich great uncle over tea. But in the modern age of the Internet and the technologies at our disposal, there are diverse and viable options for rais...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis NEW YORK, New York, February 13, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – It’s that time of year. The lists ranking the world’s 135 most ethical corporations and the world’s 100 most sustainable corporations have come out, and there’s a world of difference between them, with just five listings in common. 2018 World’s Most Ethical Companies The list of the world’s 100 most ethical corporations is...[Read More]

Maximpact.com has been in operation almost one year. And what a year it’s been for impact investing and for us. The last twelve months have seen impact investing; in fact all forms of social and sustainable investing gain significant ground. We saw the Impact G8 in London and heard the buzz around impact grow louder. Some of the main infrastructure issues such as measurement and exits have begun t...[Read More]

Australia’s luxury resort Saffire Freycinet is located mid-way along Tasmania’s East Coast. To eliminate the last bit of temptation, the resort requires guests to surrender their digital devices upon arrival if they are participating in the resort’s “e-tox” package. (Photo courtesy Digital Detox Holidays) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis TOWNSVILLE, Queensland, Australia, July 24, 2018 (Maximpa...[Read More]

Caption: Rohingya refugee Rashida Begum, 23, left, receives counseling at Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. 2019 (Photo by Roger Arnold courtesy UNHCR) By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact GENEVA, Switzerland, December 19, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – The world’s first Global Refugee Forum ended Wednesday with hundreds of pledges and a “decisive shift” in approach. More than 770 pledges were made that...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom A growing body of sector research is shining light on the principles of how social enterprises can use outcome monitoring to strengthen mission and deliver a blended bottom line. Up until now, the commitment to measuring and reporting outcomes has been one of the things that distinguished social investing from mainstream investing. Today, that’s changing. Increas...[Read More]

Life in the streets of Kigali, Rwanda’s Gikondo neighborhood, October 2021, (Photo by Flash Kigali) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact Sustainability NEW YORK, New York, January 19, 2022 (Maximpact.com Sustainability News) – Bloomberg Philanthropies today announced the 15 winning cities of the 2021-2022 Global Mayors Challenge https://bloombergcities.jhu.edu/mayors-challenge, a worl...[Read More]